Here is the final list... let's see how I got there.----------------------------------
I have qualified for 1 of 27 seats in an Aussie Millions Tournament... an 18k package with all the frills... and the action starts..... NOW (with now being 10pm est).
It couldn't have started sooner. I didn't really think about it until I was hosting an RPT Tournament on Tuesday night and someone mentioned it to me. I pulled up the FTP lobby and saw my name at the top of the list (typical for a screen name that starts with a hyphen). I got my first set of butterflies in a long time. The last time I really had that feeling was sitting down at The Borgata for my first ever cash tournament inside a casino.
With only 27 players registered for this tournament, it feels good to know that I played less than half of the qualifiers and I finished 19th in points overall... but points mean nothing here. The points got me into a $1000 freeroll which started at 9pm and really meant as much to me as my last good dump. Not that I'm downing it in any way shape or form. It's just that 1st place out of 50 players in the freeroll gets $290 big smackers... and 1st place in a 27 person freeroll gets an $18,000 package to go to Australia for 10 days and play against some of the worlds best... and the worlds best gets to play against the winner of this tourney.
Best of luck to everyone, I won't be regularly updating, but I will post some interesting situations if they arise.
BeepBeep.
Now... a hand you might hear about...
Battle of the Bloggers Final - Table 2 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:53:15 ET - 2007/12/20
Seat 1: actyper (5,295)
Seat 2: -o-LuckTruck-o- (3,990) I have played about 4 hands total to this point, none to a showdown.
Seat 3: Mike_Maloney (4,380)
Seat 4: Budohorseman (2,540)
Seat 5: lucko21 (5,260)
Seat 8: emptyman (2,945) couldn't miss a flop in the early stages of the 1k BBT2 Freeroll
Seat 9: dnasty13 (1,220)
Budohorseman posts the small blind of 40
lucko21 posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to -o-LuckTruck-o- [9h 9s]
emptyman raises to 240
-o-LuckTruck-o- calls 240
lucko21 calls 160 in the BB
*** FLOP *** [Ts 8s 7s]
lucko21 checks
emptyman checks
-o-LuckTruck-o- bets 500 in last position, so this could just look like a standard bet because both players have checked to me, but I got PP with oe Str8 flush draw... not really thinking about the draw... as I actually think my 99 is good and won't get a call.
lucko21 raises to 1,250 first reacion is that this is a steal with As or Ks with possible pair.. he is perfectly capable of pushing my weaktight ass all around this table.
emptyman folds
-o-LuckTruck-o- raises to 3,750, and is all in put the pressure on him hoping my read was right
lucko21 calls 2,500
-o-LuckTruck-o- shows [9h 9s]
lucko21 shows [Ks Qs] K hi flush. Super. So I say...
-o-LuckTruck-o-: nh
*** TURN *** [Ts 8s 7s] [9d] woot... what was that? A card that can help me? Me? no.. never...
*** RIVER *** [Ts 8s 7s 9d] [8d] 12 outter. Beep Beep.
-o-LuckTruck-o- shows a full house, Nines full of Eights
lucko21 shows a flush, King high
-o-LuckTruck-o- wins the pot (8,260) with a full house, Nines full of Eights
So, it comes down to this, I was behind and got lucky. Not the first time, not the last, but very rare that I am in that position. As you can read from most of my blogs.. this is a badbeat world and 99% of the time I am it's bitch slapping post.
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Final Table at Midnite.... 8th of 9 right now... I have been pushed off of some decent hands, and got no action with real hands... just trying to reverse that progress... still got a lot of action left ... blinds are only 150/300/25
Short tabling is my game so lets see if I can get my cards in and win... regardless if they are good or not...
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No love for the lucktruck. I tried hiding the fact that I was carddead for 214 of the 218 hands I saw. If I see another Q-rag this week I'm going to go berserk.
Q8-Q2 showed up 29 times in 218 hands... 13% of my hands...
I had 10 pocket pairs that were 99 or less
1 AA
0 AK
1 KK
2 QQ
0 JJ
Alas... it wasn't meant to be. I tried to fight back by making some standard raises with mediocre hands or low pp's, but it felt like it was push or fold by everyone at the time I started getting low stacked. I was reraised pretty much every time. Maybe it's just my style, but putting all my money in with 44 or A9 preflop isn't the way I play. If I wanted to gamble, I'd throw dice at Harrah's.
The only shocking thing that I really have to say was that when I standard raised with mid level cards, I was reraised 9/10 times. When I standard raised with my AA, KK, and one of my QQ's, I got no action. I had Loretta8 set up 3 to my left and it was the perfect set up. I raised twice into him and he reraised me each time and I layed down.. AJ and 55... yet the times I had AA and KK vs him, I get no reraise.
It just felt that nothing I did throughout went the way I envisioned. I won only one big hand, and you read how that happened. Alas...
Beep Beep and best of luck to Jeciimd in Australia... do us proud!
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